{"id":34,"date":"2024-09-19T18:19:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sacrednile.com\/chesterhiggins\/colibri-wp\/"},"modified":"2024-09-28T20:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T20:36:36","slug":"colibri-wp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sacrednile.com\/chesterhiggins\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Page"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Visualizing the Unseen<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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A Photographer\u2019s Journey<\/h2>\n

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For the past five decades, artist Chester Higgins has been using his camera to search for the unseen \u2014 \u201cthat which is innate within all things and informs the appearance of our world.\u201d …<\/p>\n

Higgins\u2019s passion for ordinary people and the rituals that enrich our lives are prominent… \u201cIt is inside simple moments where I look for windows into larger meaning,\u201d he says. \u201cArt is an expression of the soul that gives visual definition\n to an experience.\u201d The images in \u201cUnseen Spirit\u201d are intimate, personal scenes in which most of the subjects appear unaware of the camera. Using light, which \u201cenergizes and informs everything it touches,\u201d Higgins gives voice to the\n essence of what he photographs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m photographing, I feel time begin to shift between the present, the past, and the future \u2014 which is the nature of the Spirit,\u201d he continues. \u201cMy challenge is to reveal the Spirit\u2019s fleeting presence.\u201d Wrestling with issues\n of memory, place, and identity, Higgins sees his life as a narrative and his photography as its expression. \u201cMy art gives visual expression to my personal and collective memories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Higgins\u2019s work has culminated in exhibitions worldwide and in numerous books, including Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa and his biography Echo of the Spirit. Currently he is researching and photographing\n monuments and other antiquity sites along the River Nile from the 6,000-foot high mountains of Kush (modern-day Ethiopia) through Nubia (Sudan) down to the ancient land of Kemet (Egypt). In this latest project, entitled Sacred Nile,\n Higgins narrates the story of the African beginnings of spirituality, antecedents of the Biblical world.<\/p>\n

\u2014 by Betsy Kissam<\/p>\n

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